Semantic Concept of Existential Presupposition
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Human Affairs |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | http://www.springerlink.com/content/xu3487620357m606/ |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | existential presupposition; existential import; commitment ; de dicto and de re |
| Description | Strawson's work seems to contain both pragmatic and semantic concepts of presupposition. The former concept has largely been studied by many philosophers and linguists, while the latter has not been properly investigated (van Fraassen being an exception). The present author explicates the semantic concept of existential presupposition in relation to deriving existential statements and distinguishing their de dicto/de re variants (in the rather generalized sense following Tichý). |